Achara
Ihechiowa Network Forum (AINF) Congratulate His Excellency: Chief Dr. Theodore
Ahanefula Orji (Ochendo) – AINF COORDINATOR
The Online Community Members of Achara
Ihechiowa Network Forum (AINF) in Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State
wishes to congratulate our beloved Governor, His Excellency, Chief (Dr.)
Theodore Ahanefula Orji (Ochendo) for his one year in the office with
uncountable infrastructural Development Projects in Arochukwu and beyond. We
pray that your remaining tenure in the office would ensure the continuity of
restructuring and rebuilding of the space of development that needed your assistant
in ACHARA IHECHIOWA. May your laudable policies and future vision serve to move
our beloved state beyond people’s expectation and as well pilot the affairs of
Abians. Congratulations Your Excellency. http://www.abiastate.gov.ng
Evangelist Nnana Kalu is a native of Achara
Ihechiowa in Arochukwu Local Government Area , Abia State, Nigeria. He
was born into a very poor family, the father being a farmer and a part time
pastor in a church that didn’t really believe in all the truth of the
Bible. He languished in this poverty until he finished the primary school
without hope of going any further in education.However, a strange inspiration came upon him after the Nigeria civil war which
led to him locking up himself in his father’s house to read for the University
of London General Certificate of Education Examination which came up every
January in the early 1970s. His ambition was to become a medical
doctor. So he sat in the house and memorized the science subjects without
seeing a laboratory. He took the G.C.E. and cleared the papers in top
grades. With the results, he got admission into the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka to study Pharmacy. He graduated with honours in 1978 and
then went neck deep into the practice of pharmacy.
Because of this unexpected success, he resisted the Gospel of Jesus Christ
until He went to do the Nigeria National Youth Service corps duties.
In February, 1980, in Gombe town in the Northern part of Nigeria, when he was
basking in the glory of his achievements educationally and otherwise, he
received a visitation in his bedroom when deep a sleep at night. A hand
touched him on the bed and he was literarily thrown off the bed and before he
hit the floor, all the sins he ever committed from the time he had the first
memory as a child descended upon him as heavy weights trying to crush him to
death. As he cried and confessed each sin to God the weights left him as
they came and deep down his heart the voice of Jesus sounded and told him all
about the plans of God for his life. He began from that day to share his
testimony and preach to lead others to Christ. He has done this with a
passion, travelling to different countries of the world.
In 1992, the Lord asked him to resign from pharmacy and go to full time
evangelistic and teaching ministry. Evangelist Nnana Kalu has pursued
this calling with a passion and the Lord has been working with him confirming
the word of God from his mouth with various healings and miracles such as
opening the eyes of the blind, raising the paralyzed, removing of cancers and
some other outstanding miracles.
Nnana Kalu is available for ministry anywhere, anytime. He is completely
sold out to Jesus as a bond servant who has sworn to serve his Master for life.
Evangelist Nnana Kalu received a national honour for outstanding
performance from the Federal Government Of Nigeria. Reverend Nnana Kalu was
ordained a Clergy in November 1999.
Dr. Umachi Nnukwu Umachi was born on
April 20, 1936, at Achara, Ihechiowa in Abia State of Nigeria, to Mazi Nnukwu
Kalu Umachi and Madam Ori Nnukwu Umachi. After his graduation from the University
of Detroit, Dr. Umachi worked for two large Insurance Companies, the Equitable
Life Assurance Society of the U.S. and the Sun Life of Canada as an Agency
Assistant.He later became a Charter Life Underwriter.
In 1978, he became a part-time
instructor for Wayne State University and Wayne Community College.He later
joined the Detroit Public Schools in 1982 as an Adult Education teacher.He was
encouraged and went back to school.He graduated in 1986 with a PhD in Higher
Education.
In 1987, he was offered the position
of Junior Administrative Assistant by the Detroit Board of Education and worked
at the School Center Building.In 1992 he was assigned to the African Heritage
Cultural Center where he worked as a Program Associate.
Dr. Umachi advocated African
Culture.He remained at the Center until his reassignment in 2001 as the
Administrator in charge of the Harris Adult Education Center.He worked at this
Center until he suffered a massive stroke that led to his retirement from the Detroit
Public Schools System in 2001.
Dr. Umachi departed this world in
the early hours of Saturday, January 10, 2004, at the Sinai- Grace Hospital
after a prolonged illness.He will always be remembered for the special life he
lived and the legacy he left behind.He loved people and was greatly loved by all.
His greatest pride and joy was his
family.He was a devoted husband and father.He had so much admiration and
appreciation for his wife and children and saw so much beauty in them.
Dr. Umachi was a God-fearing man.He
was an active member of the Presbyterian Church in Nigeria and here in the
U.S.He served as a deacon and elder at Fort Street Presbyterian Church.He also
fellowshipped at the Church of the Living God Full Gospel Ministries in
Detroit.
He was a highly respected and
honored member and a great leader in the Nigerian community.He was a founding
member of the Nigerian Foundation of Michigan, a lifetime patron of the Ibo
Cultural Association of Michigan and the founder and the first president of the
Old Bende Cultural Association of Michigan and Ihechiowa Development Union
(IDU).He was also a member of various other organizations, including the
organizations of School Administrators of Michigan.
Dr. Umachi left to cherish his memories, his wife, Mrs.
Ngozi S.Umachi, four sons; Samuel N. Umachi, Chukwuemeka O. Umachi, Chinedum K.
Umachi and Chidi O. Umachi.
Friday, 25 May 2012
Hon. Chidi Elebua Obasi hails
from Amainima Compound, Achara Ihechiowa, Arochukwu LGA, Abia State.
He has served our community as a Senior Prefect during his Secondary Education in
1984; Financial Secretary, and later Chairman, Achara Ihechiowa Patriotic Union,
Onitsha Branch; presently Secretary of Achara Ihechiowa indigenes living in Lagos
and Secretary of Ihechiowa Development Union (I. D.
U), Lagos
Branch.. However, he is a graduate of accountancy and holds a masters degree in
Banking and Finance from Lagos
State University.
He has also worked in four bank-related financial institutions and presently
the Operations Manager of Key Bureau De Change, Lagos State.
To God be the glory